Of Irish Blood

Author : Mary Pat Kelly
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765329131
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Irish Blood written by Mary Pat Kelly and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleeing a crushing affair, Nora Kelly enters the Left Bank society of early twentieth-century Paris, where she joins the struggle to free Ireland.

Author : Mary Pat Kelly
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446545074
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Galway Bay written by Mary Pat Kelly and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling tradition of Frank Delaney, Colleen McCullough, and Maeve Binchy comes a poignant historical family saga set against the Famine. In a hidden Ireland where fishermen and tenant farmers find solace in their ancient faith, songs, stories, and communal celebrations, young Honora Keeley and Michael Kelly wed and start a family. Because they and their countrymen must sell both their catch and their crops to pay exorbitant rents, potatoes have become their only staple food. But when blight destroys the potatoes three times in four years, a callous government and uncaring landlords turn a natural disaster into The Great Starvation that will kill one million. Honora and Michael vow their children will live. The family joins two million other Irish refugees--victims saving themselves--in the emigration from Ireland. Danger and hardship await them in America. Honora, her unconventional sister Mv°ire, and their seven sons help transform Chicago from a frontier town to the "City of the Century." The boys go on to fight in the Civil War and enlist in the cause of Ireland's freedom. Spanning six generations and filled with joy, sadness, and heroism, Galway Bay sheds brilliant light on the ancestors of today's forty-four million Irish Americans--and is a universal story you will never forget.

Author : Mary Pat Kelly
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 0765380889
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Above All written by Mary Pat Kelly and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Pat Kelly draws upon family heritage to continue the story of Nora Kelly--begun in Of Irish Blood--with a striking novel of historical fiction in Irish Above All. After ten years in Paris, where she learned photography and became part of the movement that invented modern art, Chicago-born, Irish-American Nora Kelly is at last returning home. Her skill as a photographer will help her cousin Ed Kelly in his rise to Mayor of Chicago. But when she captures the moment an assassin’s bullet narrowly misses President-elect Franklin Roosevelt and strikes Anton Cermak in February 1933, she enters a world of international intrigue and danger. Now, she must balance family obligations against her encounters with larger-than-life historical characters, such as Joseph Kennedy, Big Bill Thompson, Al Capone, Mussolini, and the circle of women who surround F.D.R. Nora moves through the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and World War II, but it’s her unexpected trip to Ireland that transforms her life.

Author : Annie Caulfield
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014193591X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Blood, English Heart, Ulster Fry written by Annie Caulfield and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie Caulfield's early years were spent by the seaside in Ireland. However, the family shifted to Sixties London and soon she wasn't sure who she was - was she English, was she Irish, and if so, what kind of Irish? Watching the news of The Troubles, she was unable to recognise the country she'd left behind. On return journeys to visit her family over the last thirty years, she discovers how much The Troubles have caused weird and successful aspects of the country's life and history to be overlooked. Caulfield's background is religiously and politically mixed, giving her a unique and often astute perspective on The Troubles. This is an Irish emigrant's tale, asking whether you can ever really go back to your roots. If you were a punk rocker when others were on hunger strike, can you really put your hand on your heart and say 'my people'? If you get a headache and go home to watch Big Brother on 12th July, are you just too flippant to understand your own country? There are many books on the recent history of Northern Ireland, but none give such a funny insight into the lives of ordinary people as Annie Caulfield's affectionate portrait of 'Alternative Ulster'.

Author : Elizabeth Massie
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765356055
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1870: Not With Our Blood written by Elizabeth Massie and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Irish immigrant boy keeps hope alive by dreaming of becoming a writer.

Author : Trisha Telep
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1849014221
Total Pages : 699 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Irish Romance written by Trisha Telep and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when an Irish god finds himself smitten by a beautiful mortal woman? When the Celtic gods dream of romance trouble abounds! Visit an Irish king tempted by the poetry of a sensuous wraith who blends the mythological and the historical so seamlessly he finds himself transported to a myth-laden Ireland of beasts and warriors-and entirely at her mercy. A forbidden love cursed by the saints causes two young lovers to magically shape-shift to freedom in an underground fairy Otherworld with disastrous results. A Celtic hero sets out on a treacherous sea journey to claim a dream woman. The rekindled ashes of an ancient desire between a fierce clansman and his lady find new light with a pair of young, secret lovers. The volume contains stories by: Jenna Maclaine, Jennifer Ashley, Roberta Gellis, Claire Delacroix, Sue-Ellen Welfonder, Cindy Miles, Ciar Cullen, Helen Scott Taylor, Shirley Kennedy, Margo Maguire, Susan Krinard, Pat McDermott, Nadia Williams, Dara England, Kathleen Givens, Sandra Newgent, Cindy Holby, Cat Adams, Penelope Neri, Patricia Rice.

Author : Andrew M. Greeley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780812576061
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Love written by Andrew M. Greeley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-03-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack the B.

Author : Tom Clonan
Publisher : Liberties Press
ISBN 13 : 1907593772
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood, Sweat and Tears written by Tom Clonan and published by Liberties Press. This book was released on 2012-11-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish troops have served 40,000 individual tours of duty over four decades in Lebanon. All over Ireland, in almost every family, there is a father, a brother, a sister, son, daughter or cousin who has come under fire in South Lebanon. Forty-seven Irish troops died in Lebanon and thousands more have returned with physical and psychological injuries. Blood, Sweat and Tears tells the true story of the Irish at war. Clonan brings the reader on a tour of duty in Lebanon from 1995 to 1996. His vivid account brings you from a rain-swept Dublin Airport on a dark October night to the massacre of 118 innocent men, women and children in the village of Qana, South Lebanon in April 1996. The reader is taken on patrol with the Irish army and shares in their black humour, their fears, frustration and pain. It is through this odyssey that the heartbreaking nature of peacekeeping operations as seen through Irish eyes is laid bare like never before. Blood, Sweat and Tears is above all a story of personal loss, loneliness and the psychological trauma of military service in a time of war. As the narrator comes to terms with the slaughter of innocents around him, he will ultimately be confronted with the loss of those closest to him at home in Ireland. 'Tom Clonan brings to life the sights, sounds, smells and characters of southern Lebanon. His beautifully written book is in turns funny, gripping and heart-breaking.' - Lara Marlowe

Author : Sean Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781859184905
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Blood, English Heart written by Sean Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a full account of second-generation Irish cultural music production in post-war England, this book examines the work of artists such as Shane MacGowan, Kevin Rowland, Johnny Marr and Morrissey.

Author : Declan Hughes
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061842842
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wrong Kind of Blood written by Declan Hughes and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After twenty years in Los Angeles, Ed Loy has come home to bury his mother. But hers is only the first dead body he encounters after crossing an ocean. The city Loy once knew is an unrecognizable place, filled with gangsters, seducers, hucksters, and crazies, each with a scheme and an angle. But he can't refuse the sexy former schoolmate who asks him to find her missing husband—or the old pal-turned-small time criminal who shows up on Loy's doorstep with a hard-luck story and a recently fired gun. Suddenly, a tragic homecoming could prove fatal for the grieving investigator, as an unexplained photograph of his long-vanished father, a murky property deal, and a corpse discovered in the foundations of town hall combine to turn a curious case into a dark obsession—dragging Ed Loy into a violent underworld of drugs, extortion, and murder . . . and through his own haunted past where the dead will never rest.